how ever many potatoes you wantany variety (I used red skin)
olive oilor whatever kind you like
butter
garlic powder
dried parsley
salt
Parmesan cheesegrated
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees
Massage your potatoes in olive oil, and place them on a lined cookie sheet. Do Give your potatoes lots of room, you do not want to cram your potatoes too close to each other.
Bake for 45 minutes, or until tender.
Pull them out of the oven, and let them rest for 5-10 minutes.
This is the tricky part, smashing the potato. If you just take a mallet and smash the potato, you will get a huge mess! You want to gently cut a slit from top to bottom (do not pierce through to the bottom). Then turn the potato and make 3 small slits . That's 1 cut down and 3 cuts across.
Now, take your fork and starting from the inside out, smoosh the potato until you get a smashed potato looking like a UFO.
Add a tsp. of butter to the middle of each potato and sprinkle with desired seasonings.
Place potatoes back in the oven on BROIL and cook for an additional 3-5 minutes, or until tops are golden brown.